Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks of backroom negotiations between Giscardians and Gaullists failed to produce a compromise on a candidate. Calling Ornano's candidacy already a failure, Chirac said he was offering his own "so that the capital of France does not run the risk of falling into Socialist-Communist hands." The logic convinced no one. Premier Raymond Barre, visibly angered, charged that Chirac's move would sow such political confusion in the ranks of the majority that his economic-recovery program would be "compromised." Added Centrist Leader Jean Lecanuet: "Far from strengthening the majority, Mr. Chirac's initiative risks giving...
...niece, while he has an eligible nephew-his heir, the aspiring politician Plantagenet Palliser. The duke sees the merit of the equation and gives his nephew a quick lesson in marital arithmetic. When Palliser demurs that he and Glencora do not love each other, the duke, with impeccable Victorian logic, retorts: "Love? We are talking about marriage...
Black student demand effected a more logical response in the form of a Faculty Committee on African and Afro-American Studies; logical in the sense that it was more than a hasty reaction to black demands for a relevant curriculum. In retrospect, the logic of that committee is questionable. How Martin Kilson, one of the most outspoken critics of black studies, came to sit on that committee causes one to wonder. Even more cause for wonder is how Henry Rosovsky, then professor, now dean, became the chairman. To Rosovsky, this came as no surprise. He was later to say that...
Even more clever has been the "logic" the administration has used to explain discrimination against the Afro-American Studies department. One tenured person would not be enough to make recommendations for additional tenured positions; therefore, special sub-committees of the FAS would usurp the responsibility of the department in making such recommendations. In the early years, the standing committee was responsible for the selection and appointment of two tenured faculty in the department. After three years, the standing committee was abolished, and there was only one tenured member of the department, the chairman, Professor Guinier. Next came the sub-committee...
...illustrious predecessors: the Greek poet Pindar (circa 500 B.C.) wrote an ode without using the letter sigma. Lewis Carroll, an Oxford mathematician better known for the Alice books, liked to mix the logic of numbers with the freedom of dreams. In this century, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings and Vladimir Nabokov all enjoyed the pleasures of arithmetic while exploring the peripheries of language. But it was not until 1960 that the newly formed OuLiPo officiated at the shotgun wedding of science and literature. Its first and still most remarkable product was Cent Milie Milliards de Poems (A Hundred Thousand...